JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Episode 12

The Pillar Man
General information
Episode	12
Season	1
Japanese Name	柱の男
Romanized	Hashira no Otoko
Runtime	23:39
Manga Chapters	BT Chapters 10-13 (54-57)
Air Dates
Japanese	December 22, 2012
English	January 15, 2017
Other Information
Opening Theme	BLOODY STREAM
Ending Theme	Roundabout
Episode guide
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“

So you are the ones who disturb my slumber?! (キサマラカッ！オレノ眠リヲ邪魔シタノハ⁉)

”

—Santana, BD/DVD Volume 4

The Pillar Man (柱の男, Hashira no Otoko) is the twelfth episode of season one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It is also the third episode of Battle Tendency. It covers Chapter 54 through Chapter 57 of the manga.

Joseph heads to Mexico to find Speedwagon while the Nazis experiment on the Pillar Man. While Joseph works his way towards the Nazis' laboratory, the Pillar Man named Santana awakens and attacks the Nazis.

Summary

Joseph disguises himself as a woman

In the middle of the Mexican desert, Joseph is confronted by one of Stroheim's men, Donovan. Donovan is a trained special forces soldier but Joseph makes short of work of him thanks to the Ripple: he remotely makes chollas explode near Donovan's face and then takes him down before interrogating the soldier. JoJo thus learns that Speedwagon is still alive and imprisoned in a hacienda near their position. Leaving Donovan to his fate, Joseph then reaches the base where Speedwagon is kept prisoner. Ensues a comical scene during which Joseph tries to infiltrate the compound, poorly disguised as a woman. Caught, Joseph then knocks out the guards.

Santana meets Joseph

Meanwhile in the underground laboratory, Stroheim manages to awaken the Pillar Man, naming him Santana after the winds of Mexico. To test him, Stroheim sends a Vampire. At first, it seems that Santana is defenseless, but then the Pillar Man effortlessly absorbs the monster into his body to feed himself. Moreover, Santana's superior intellect begins to manifest as he easily masters the contemporary language. To Stroheim's shock, Santana manages to escape his cell by twisting his body through the air vents and launches himself into the body of one of his men. When the guards riddle the man with bullets, the possessed Nazi then simply fires them back with his fingers.

Just as Santana reveals himself and begins to fire bullets in Speedwagon's direction, Joseph finally comes out of his disguise and uses some hair to block the bullets, puzzling the Pillar Man as to how this man could stop the bullets. The battle between Joseph Joestar and Santana begins.

Appearances

Characters

Joseph Joestar

(Retired)

Donovan

(Mentioned only)

Straizo

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

Rudol von Stroheim

(1st full appearance)

Santana

(1st appearance) (Death)

Vampire Prisoner

(1st appearance)

Nazi Gatekeepers

(1st appearance) (Death)

Nazi Researcher

(1st appearance) (Death)

Santana's Body Host

Credits

Staff

Script (脚本)

Kazuyuki Fudeyasu

ふでやす かずゆき

Storyboard (絵コンテ)

Yukio Nishimoto

西本 由紀夫

Episode Director (演出)

Yukio Nishimoto

西本 由紀夫

Animation Director (作画監督)

Ryotaro Akao
Toshihiko Masuda

赤尾 良太郎
増田 敏彦

Animation Director Cooperation (作画監督協力)

Yukitoshi Houtani
Shunichi Ishimoto
Megumi Itoi
Takahiro Kamei

宝谷 幸稔
石本峻一
糸井恵
亀井 隆広

Assistant Animation Director (作画監督補)

Minoru Morita
Tatsuo Amemiya

森田 実
雨宮 達夫

Key Animation (原画)

Susumu Nishizawa
Tatsuo Amemiya
Shinya Nogami
Shinpei Koikawa
Rui Kondo
Motoki Yagi
Rika Kanetaka
Toshihiko Masuda
Shinichi Suzuki
Hirotaka Nii
Shouichi Funaki
Yuichiro Hayashi
Koji Miura
Keiko Yamamoto
Ryousuke Senbo

西澤 晋
雨宮 達夫
野上 慎也
鯉川 慎平
近藤 瑠衣
八木 元喜
兼高 里佳
増田 敏彦
鈴木 伸一
仁井 宏隆
舟木 翔一
林 裕一郎
三浦 弘二
山本 径子
泉保 良輔

2nd Key Animation (第二原画)

Zinnmu Zinnmurar
Minoru Morita
Meta Studio
Seigasha
Tokyo Animation Center
Studio Izena
Studio Mark

山口 夢仁
森田 実
メタスタジオ
靑画舎
東京アニメーションセンター
スタジオ イゼナ
スタジオマーク

In-between Animation (動画)

In-Between Animation Inspection

Zinnmu Zinnmurar

山口夢仁

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Sayo Endo
Ming Zhe Qiu
Mutsumi Sasahara
Young-Ung Lee
Hanil Animation
Yades
Big Owl
AI
Jumondo
Beep
J&K Corporation
Triple A
Hayashi

遠藤 小夜
邱 明哲
笹原 睦美
李 英熊
韓一動画
Yades
ビッグオウル
AI
寿門堂
BEEP
J&Kコーポレーション
AAA
ハヤシ株式会社

david production

Shuhei Fukuda
Sae Akama
Takahiro Okawa
Kirara Kikui
Masato Ujibe

福田 周平
赤間 紗枝
大川 貴大
菊井 きらら
宇治部 まさと

Design Cooperation (デザイン協力)

Tomoaki Kado
Gorou Murata

かど ともあき
村田 護郎

Digital Works (デジタルワークス)

David Production

Takahiro Kamei
Kayo Kudou
P. Taweeporn

亀井 隆広
工藤 かよ
Puavaranukroh Taweeporn

Manga/Anime Differences

• The scene where Joseph beats up some Mexicans is removed from the anime.
• Donovan doesn't reveal his knife's hidden function to unravel.
• In the anime, Joseph undresses both gatekeepers after they're knocked out, while in the manga, he only undresses one of them.
• When taking his jacket off in the anime, the Star Birthmark can be seen near the back of Joseph's neck; in the manga, it isn't seen since the concept of the birthmark wouldn't appear until Stardust Crusaders.
• Donovan getting a magnetic compass in his eye (with Joseph calling him pathetic) and the note that says "Hello Adolph!" on the cactus he's tied to is cut.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Japanese	柱の男	The Pillar Man
Chinese	柱之男	The Pillar Man
Chinese (Hong Kong)	柱中的男人	The Man in the Pillar
English	The Pillar Man
Spanish	El Hombre del Pilar	The Man of the Pillar
Portuguese	O Homem do Pilar	The Pillar Man
French	L’homme du pilier	The pillar man
German	Der Mann in der Säule	The Man in the Pillar
Hebrew	איש העמוד	The Man of the Pillar
Arabic	رجل العمود	Pillar Man
Italian	L'uomo del Pilastro	The man of the Pillar
Czech	Muž z pilíře	The Man from the pillar
Danish	Søjlemanden	The piller man
Polish	Człowiek z filaru	Pillar Man

Commentary

Commentary

“

This is the tacos episode (laughs)! The story itself doesn't really move forward since it's mainly about Santana slaughtering the German army, but a lot of stuff is worth seeing.

Notably, Joseph disguising as a woman in an oh so crazy scene. He's walking with an up and down motion, a little like a character from an old video game. You also find out fabulous Stroheim's famed shouts in episode 11 (laughs). He's voiced by Atsushi Imaruoka who gave everything at work, just like the rest of the cast. The recording sessions are as always vivacious "He is in the air duct!"

A good notable animation sequence: the time when the German soldier possessed by Santana gets shot.

Globally, Episode 12 works because of the diversity of the cast's personalities; everything ties together well. For the physical releases, we had to remake several plans so that the experience will be different than that of the TV broadcast.

”

—Naokatsu Tsuda, Blu-Ray limited edition commentaries

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Trivia

• The intro to the song played during Joseph's Ripple hair attack is similar to the intro of the song, Owner of a Lonely Heart, by Yes.